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Nixon and Mao
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 17.00With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919 , Margaret MacMillan was praised as ?a superb writer who can bring history to life? ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today?the relationship between the United States and China?and one of the most significant moments... more...
Dangerous Games
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used... more...
The Uses and Abuses of History
Profile 2010; US$ 14.38The past is capricious enough to support every stance no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to look to history for guidance? No; their mistake was to exaggerate one of its lessons while suppressing... more...
Peacemakers
John Murray 2011; US$ 25.36The story of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, when for six extraordinary months the city was at the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals and prejudices of the settlement brokers. more...
Peacemakers
John Murray 2011; Not AvailableThe story of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, when for six extraordinary months the city was at the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals and prejudices of the settlement brokers. more...
Stephen Leacock
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 18.99In 1912, Stephen Leacock?s comic masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town made him an international star overnight. He was published in magazines and newspapers across Canada and in New York and London. Charlie Chaplin asked him for a screenplay; a young F. Scott Fitzgerald expressed his admiration. Eminent historian Margaret MacMillan argues... more...
Paris 1919
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 20.00Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Between January and July 1919, after ?the war to end all wars,? men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his... more...
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